Mark Rigney's Blog - Posts Tagged "ghosts"
Writing, Reading, Life
May. Is there no end to the writing projects?
I’ve turned in my latest draft of The Copyist to my agent, and our mutual expectation is that he’ll shortly be shopping it to publishers. Very exciting; my first historical! At least in novel form. I’ve done historicals as short fiction and as plays. Rewarding. Difficult. Research required.
Meanwhile, the next Renner & Quist novel is slated for a Sept. 1 release. Bonesy! I'm very pleased with the (gruesome, a bit) cover. Having just read over the copy-edited manuscript, I got to see the book with fresh eyes (I hadn’t looked at it since late fall, 2014), and I was pleasantly surprised to find a complex and emotional storyline that I really enjoyed. I can’t wait to share it with you.
If you haven’t yet delved into Check-Out Time, the prequel to Bonesy, here’s one excellent source (the publisher):
https://www.samhainpublishing.com/boo...
Now I’m working over the latest revision of a play, The Shout, set to debut at Indianapolis’ Indy Fringe Fest in August of this year. If you’re in striking distance of Indy, come see! The schedule isn’t posted yet, but here’s a link to the festival itself:
http://indyfringe.org/indyfringe-thea...
In reading, I’m working through John Crowley’s The Solitudes. He’s a favorite, but so far, sixty pages in, I’m lost and baffled––but in what I suppose might be called “a good way.” His writing is so fine, so observant, so precise, so playful, that I cannot help but follow along. Based on my experience with his masterpiece, Little, Big, I know he’ll take me on a terrific journey. All I have to do is keep turning the pages.
Via audio book, I’m 80% of the way through The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. I’ve used author Mark Haddon’s terrific short story, “The Gun,” to teach my creative writing students back at Harlaxton (College), and when I heard that Incident had been adapted for the stage, I knew that eventually I’d get around to reading that, as well. The unreliable narrator is, in a neat sleight of hand, supremely reliable. So far, however, I prefer “The Gun,” which is, in my view, a perfect exemplar of the coming-of-age story.
Two unwritten short stories are calling (nay, hollering) my name, plus a new play. However, the yard and garden, now that it’s dance-around-the-Maypole season, call even more loudly.
Stop by again soon! Giveaways of both Check-Out Time and Bonesy are in the offing.
Onward.
I’ve turned in my latest draft of The Copyist to my agent, and our mutual expectation is that he’ll shortly be shopping it to publishers. Very exciting; my first historical! At least in novel form. I’ve done historicals as short fiction and as plays. Rewarding. Difficult. Research required.
Meanwhile, the next Renner & Quist novel is slated for a Sept. 1 release. Bonesy! I'm very pleased with the (gruesome, a bit) cover. Having just read over the copy-edited manuscript, I got to see the book with fresh eyes (I hadn’t looked at it since late fall, 2014), and I was pleasantly surprised to find a complex and emotional storyline that I really enjoyed. I can’t wait to share it with you.
If you haven’t yet delved into Check-Out Time, the prequel to Bonesy, here’s one excellent source (the publisher):
https://www.samhainpublishing.com/boo...
Now I’m working over the latest revision of a play, The Shout, set to debut at Indianapolis’ Indy Fringe Fest in August of this year. If you’re in striking distance of Indy, come see! The schedule isn’t posted yet, but here’s a link to the festival itself:
http://indyfringe.org/indyfringe-thea...
In reading, I’m working through John Crowley’s The Solitudes. He’s a favorite, but so far, sixty pages in, I’m lost and baffled––but in what I suppose might be called “a good way.” His writing is so fine, so observant, so precise, so playful, that I cannot help but follow along. Based on my experience with his masterpiece, Little, Big, I know he’ll take me on a terrific journey. All I have to do is keep turning the pages.
Via audio book, I’m 80% of the way through The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. I’ve used author Mark Haddon’s terrific short story, “The Gun,” to teach my creative writing students back at Harlaxton (College), and when I heard that Incident had been adapted for the stage, I knew that eventually I’d get around to reading that, as well. The unreliable narrator is, in a neat sleight of hand, supremely reliable. So far, however, I prefer “The Gun,” which is, in my view, a perfect exemplar of the coming-of-age story.
Two unwritten short stories are calling (nay, hollering) my name, plus a new play. However, the yard and garden, now that it’s dance-around-the-Maypole season, call even more loudly.
Stop by again soon! Giveaways of both Check-Out Time and Bonesy are in the offing.
Onward.
